Refinements, additions, and un-breaking stuff: iOS 7.1 reviewed

One thing that really bugs me about every iOS update is that after updating, it automatically turns Bluetooth back on, on my iPhone. I don't even have any BT accessories so I always turn it off. Yet I always see it back on again after doing an update.

Just submitted feedback to Apple on that... hopefully they think that's a good idea. It's weird that every other setting is left alone except the BT one.

The Phone preview got a lot worse. I would rather see who is calling, rather than just a lot of empty space.

The icon changes are fine.

1000+ this! I'm not pleased that the buttons got smaller. I would have much preferred that Apple had left well enough alone. The larger buttons were fine AND were more usable. Though at the end of the day I'll get used to it. But I absolutely HATE the fact that they got rid of full-screen caller ID photos and replaced it with a tiny circular thumbnail and a vast swath of empty gray space. Before it was at least an OPTION depending upon the size of your contact photo. But now that's been eliminated for no good reason. It's also hard to believe this glaring change wasn't even mentioned in the review.

But ARE the buttons smaller? Or do they just look smaller? I haven't tried it yet, but in many places in iOS the actual area that is registered as a button press is much larger than the button you see. I wouldn't be surprised if the actual area you can tap is the same as before.

I agree with the caller photos being pointlessly small. I could think of one explanation: You can standardize on small pictures easier than on large ones, since it's easier to scale down than to scale up. If somebody has no sufficiently large or high resolution pictures for his contacts he'll get different sizes or crappy resolution pictures.

But all in all I have to say that the phone interface is one of the (relatively few) areas in 7.x that really just suck compared to earlier versions. What was a really clear interface before has become somewhat of a mess. And circular buttons anyway... are there ANY other places in iOS with circular buttons? Everywhere else they went to colored text labels as buttons and in the phone they went to circular buttons. While I've grown to generally like the flat design it seems to be problematic enough in many places that uniformity had to go down the drain.

Most of the changes made sense from a usability perspective, but then they removed contact photos from the caller ID when receiving a call? That sucks, and seems to directly contradict the other usability changes.

^^ This. Why replace the full screen contact photo with overlaid buttons with a posy little contact photo and a mostly blank screen. There is plenty of screen real-estate left to have a larger photo even if they wanted to keep the buttons distinct.

I liked the view where I did have them, but it's no major loss for me because I don't have photos of most of my contacts.

Most of the changes made sense from a usability perspective, but then they removed contact photos from the caller ID when receiving a call? That sucks, and seems to directly contradict the other usability changes.

^^ This. Why replace the full screen contact photo with overlaid buttons with a posy little contact photo and a mostly blank screen. There is plenty of screen real-estate left to have a larger photo even if they wanted to keep the buttons distinct.

I liked the view where I did have them, but it's no major loss for me because I don't have photos of most of my contacts.

I only have photos for the people who call me most, which is why it is annoying to me.

It is way past time for Apple to drop the stupid app sandbox model and include some sort of global home folder that can hold files. As it stands right now, every app has to have its own copy of every document, which is a wasteful and convoluted workaround for the sandbox lockdown problem. If Apple wants the iPad to actually be used in a business environment, there has to be a way of interacting with files. For example, say you want to submit a word document or PDF to a website--there is no way to do this on iOS, because there is no "upload" or "download" in Safari. To Safari, files can only exist as read-only web links.

I don't understand why Apple can't adopt the system they have for photos for all documents, unless they assume people are too stupid to handle things like .docx files.

Edit: to those down voters do you value form over function? It was so much better dialing and answering the phone with the old iOS grid pattern. It was one of the things that attracted me to iOS after having to deal with other manufacturer's terrible dialing interfaces. I don't care if it the dialing interface is pretty or not. I need to know where things are and that I can receive and answer calls while half looking at the phone. This is a major step backwards

I can't answer for others, but I like the 7.1 dialer. It was too easy to mis-touch when the buttons are that large and pressed against each other. This is also my guess as to why they moved the "add to contacts" to be a plus sign up to the left. Not enough space between it and the dial buttons

Overall after a bit of use iOS 7.1 has made me hate iOS 7 more now than when it was first released. From the hideously ugly "button shape" to the keyboard font - overall I prefer iOS 7.0.6 that is still on my iPhone 4S to iOS 7.1 that is on the iPad 2.

I do not know what has happened to Apple's design language, but maybe Mr. Ives should stick to industrial design as opposed to software design.

Also why did it take over half an hour to install iOS 7.1 on the iPad 2. This is like Mac OS X 10.9.2 on the iMac where 25 minutes later it still stated it was restarting during the install process - for awhile I thought the installation was hung.

For all the money and resources Apple, Inc. has at its disposal they should do better.

1. less thin text makes the interface look less fragile and feminine.2. increased contrast on the backgrounds makes the UI easier to read and less eye burning.

Now, get on to…fixing the terrible icon color scheme, restore button backgrounds to buttons permanently,fixing the super thin tab bar button icons (never ever do this), fixing the centered text in fields (Safari location field), left align them like people expectget rid of the curly 1 in the Helvetica Neue font (that's just stupid), stop using over saturated colors that conflict with component colors in the UI, stop excessive use of outlines where clear graphics will suffice,stop trying to flatten everything,fix the irritating blur of the background (it's still ugly),even out the size of the controls - slider toggle is too large compared to check mark,remove excessive and useless animation from items that do not require it,restore clearly defined, yet subtle, separators between different functional areas,restore subtle shading to items, buttons, and icons,stop using weak icons (settings, camera),stop stop stop stop stop stop stop using hideous colors,stop trying to do everything in outlines (it doesn't work).

Sorry if it's been asked in an earlier post since I'm too lazy to go through all of them. Have you tested the improvements made to Touch ID?

I usually didn't have any problem with it, but sometimes it wouldn't recognize my fingers, usually left thumb, five times in a row that I had to type the long password.

I've only used it some times today, and it seems it's working better. It missed my left thumb a couple of times, but usually made it the second time. I may be lucky, but I want to know whether they made some concrete improvements to it.

7.1 made a huge difference for me. It's working much better now than it was before.

Me too. I had about 100% failure rate on my right thumb (about 90% success on left thumb). Now it is about 90-95% for both. As time goes on we'll be able to see if the rot went away too.

Now I have to test my other fingers. For whatever reason none of the fingers of my dominant hand worked well before.

I am curious how the improvements were done, given that they appear dramatically better in my case. Relaxed tolerances? No impact on the performance security-wise?

The Phone preview got a lot worse. I would rather see who is calling, rather than just a lot of empty space.

The icon changes are fine.

I want big f'ing buttons to tap.

I'm old and my eyes are going

Edit: to those down voters do you value form over function? It was so much better dialing and answering the phone with the old iOS grid pattern. It was one of the things that attracted me to iOS after having to deal with other manufacturer's terrible dialing interfaces. I don't care if it the dialing interface is pretty or not. I need to know where things are and that I can receive and answer calls while half looking at the phone. This is a major step backwards

I actually agree it's a big 2 steps backward, both for the loss of the background pic and the stupid little round buttons. Though I disagree with form over function - this was a loss of both form (ugly, terrible relative ratio) and function.

Siri is god awful slow. I still don't understand why it was architected this way. Why, when I want to call someone in my address book does that command need to be sent to apple's servers? I have good to great LTE speed here. It shouldn't take the phone 5 to 10 seconds to dial a number in my contacts. Generally speaking I find Siri to be of little use in it's current crude form when it seems like it could be great.

Define "great" LTE speed? I get around 40Mb down and 20Mb up. Latency about 15ms slower than my PC gets with wired broadband (and ethernet to the router).

For me Siri works great, I use it constantly and never see any of the 5 to 10 second delays you're complaining about. It's more like 1 second for me.

The Phone preview got a lot worse. I would rather see who is calling, rather than just a lot of empty space.

The icon changes are fine.

I want big f'ing buttons to tap.

I'm old and my eyes are going

Edit: to those down voters do you value form over function? It was so much better dialing and answering the phone with the old iOS grid pattern. It was one of the things that attracted me to iOS after having to deal with other manufacturer's terrible dialing interfaces. I don't care if it the dialing interface is pretty or not. I need to know where things are and that I can receive and answer calls while half looking at the phone. This is a major step backwards

I actually agree it's a big 2 steps backward, both for the loss of the background pic and the stupid little round buttons. Though I disagree with form over function - this was a loss of both form (ugly, terrible relative ratio) and function.

With the huge buttons in 7.0 it was easy to accidentally press the wrong one. I did it a few times and have seen others do it too. Now the buttons are smaller, a non-deliberate press is more likely to strike an area of the screen where nothing will happen. The buttons are still plenty large enough to hit them when you want to hit them.

Tons of UI mistakes. In my mind large readable text is a lot better than mysterious or at least visually-confusing, small icons. And who thought round buttons are cute? Geez.

What's worrying though is how unnecessary some of these changes are - the Shift button is a classic example of both a superfluous and unnecessary change that is actually a step BACKwards. Makes one wonder about Apple's priorities right now, and also about what they'll do to Mac OS next.

Wallpaper on the iPads are broken. In 7.0.x, it would way overzoom wallpapers unless you turned on "Reduce Motion" (turn off parallax). Now it overzooms even with this setting on. But only on some images.

Apple, can I get a the simple 1 pixel to 1 pixel wallpaper mapping mode back?

And PLEASE bring back the landscape interface for the Music App. A sea of thumbnail covers of albums I'm *not* listening to is useless.

Honestly, I just leave the screen orientation lock on all the time, except for watching the occasional YouTube video. I have yet to find a way that landscape orientation is useful, otherwise. In fact, I find it just gets in the way when activated by accident.

(All the other times I use my phone in landscape are for apps, like games, that ignore the orientation lock and automatically go into landscape).

Landscape in Safari would be real useful. Have longed for it since the first iOS.

Why the hell does Apple want to get rid of easy to identify buttons with backgrounds?

These smaller buttons completely suck.

Selecting "Button Shapes" doesn't help at all since it only UNDERLINES text in buttons.

Such crap.

Where do you see this? Every place that shows a shape gives me a filled in shape, not an underline.

I see filled in shapes in the Navigation bar, but every other UI button on every screen (like those that appear in any alert) is simply blue underlined text.

I see outlines around the buttons in the Calendar, in Nav bars, Tool bars and in Button bars, but where ever there is a lone UIButton, the text inside it is underlined just as if it were a 1996 web link.

I'll check within Xcode later on when I install 5.1 to see which buttons are affected.

Why the hell does Apple want to get rid of easy to identify buttons with backgrounds?

These smaller buttons completely suck.

Selecting "Button Shapes" doesn't help at all since it only UNDERLINES text in buttons.

Such crap.

Where do you see this? Every place that shows a shape gives me a filled in shape, not an underline.

I see filled in shapes in the Navigation bar, but every other UI button on every screen (like those that appear in any alert) is simply blue underlined text.

I see outlines around the buttons in the Calendar, in Nav bars, Tool bars and in Button bars, but where ever there is a lone UIButton, the text inside it is underlined just as if it were a 1996 web link.

Photos also has blue underlined button text.

I'll check within Xcode later on when I install 5.1 to see which buttons are affected.

I think Apple could have done a lot better for the dialler screen. Why not enable the caret if you do a long press on the numbers, like when you are typing text? It's annoying to delete all the way back and retype the numbers again if you only missed a digit or two near the start.

This. If they'd changed this instead of all the silly buttons, I'd be a much happier man. What happened to design being about usability, more than looks? (okay systemic refreshes/rethinks are necessary from time to time, as has happened on the Mac for years and also with iOS 7. But tiny unnecessary changes that only change the form, while hurting functionality just seem counter-productive, and counter to Apple's culture)

I'd made this presentation for newbies at my (ex) iOS development firm, educating them on what good design really is and why even developers should care about it. My favourite part of that presentation was the last two slides.

The first slide, showed how the volume buttons when used along with the Shift key on a Mac didn't make that "bloop" sound, so you could adjust the volume without annoying the whole crowd at a presentation, or just reduce distraction while watching a movie.

The second one, had a screenshot of the ripple effect that occurred whenever you added a new item to the Dashboard (in Snow Leopard). This is what people usually think of when they hear others talk of good design or of Apple's prowess in it.

But it is the volume control, in all its simplicity, and the fact they thought about the exceptional use case where aural feedback isn't helpful, that stands for great design, and is symbolic of the all-pervasive, obsessive attention to detail that Apple is known for.

But today we are talking about useless round buttons and changes to Shift keys that obfuscate even more, rather than clarify. Why did this need to happen?

7.1 is worth the upgrade so far, but the new shift key look and behavior is throwing me off. I can never feel certain whether it's on or off, especially when it insists on shifting for you (e.g. when creating new folders). But that said that's the only change I've seen so far that I'd seriously want rolled back.

I agree; the shift change threw me immediately. I like the appearance of the answer buttons, but I think it's detrimental to usability.

I've already had a lock-up of sorts, on the lock screen no less. When my phone was locked, I hit the home button and slid over "> Slide to unlock" and the screen shifted 1/4 inch and popped back. I had to go through a power-off/on cycle to get back into my phone. I really hope that isn't frequent...

Both 7 and 7.1 are horrible when it comes to usability of the shift key. The visual indicator is not self explanatory. It relies on users memorizing meaningless differences in the icon.

In iOS6 and earlier, there was an immediately obvious and non-confusable indicator of the shift key status. That was removed in iOS7 in order to be fashionably trendy with the look of the GUI.

This is unfortunately emblematic of how iOS7 discarded all GUI standards. For example, there is no longer a standard appearance for clickable regions, selected controls, etc. Apple is slowly realizing that their GUI usability has regressed and is backing off of some of the stylistic choices which were detrimental.

It might take years, but I hope that one day, Apple will once again value usability over style. Unfortunately that is largely dependent on the decision makers involved and I'm not convinced that those people value usability as highly as their counterparts once did.

Why the hell does Apple want to get rid of easy to identify buttons with backgrounds?

These smaller buttons completely suck.

Selecting "Button Shapes" doesn't help at all since it only UNDERLINES text in buttons.

Such crap.

Where do you see this? Every place that shows a shape gives me a filled in shape, not an underline.

I see filled in shapes in the Navigation bar, but every other UI button on every screen (like those that appear in any alert) is simply blue underlined text.

I see outlines around the buttons in the Calendar, in Nav bars, Tool bars and in Button bars, but where ever there is a lone UIButton, the text inside it is underlined just as if it were a 1996 web link.

I'll check within Xcode later on when I install 5.1 to see which buttons are affected.

While I think the button shapes are ugly, I like the url link. The share text is small enough that a button wouldn't fit in that space!

iOS 7 is a step backwards in my opinion. Case in point: My mom who could never use her cell phone effectively until my dad got her a iPhone. Once she got her iPhone she began to use all the functions of her phone like a normal user (texting, taking pictures, sharing pictures, actually using the phone!!?!). But once my dad updated her iOS from 6 to 7 she's all confused again and her ability to use the phone effectively has dropped. She gets all confused on how to use it because the interface is (again in my opinion) worse.

I don't mind making things simple and looking simple but Apple's choice of simplicity is by far a turn for the worse. Looks like Apple is copying Windows.

I totally agree with you. Standardized placement of certain buttons, now are all over the place. Nothing makes sense anymore on a GUI stand point. It's like they went from "common sense" design of the GUI to "this looks cool" design or what the programmers wanted to do. Programmers make for the worst GUI designers. Trust me, I work with them all the time.

7.1 is worth the upgrade so far, but the new shift key look and behavior is throwing me off. I can never feel certain whether it's on or off, especially when it insists on shifting for you (e.g. when creating new folders). But that said that's the only change I've seen so far that I'd seriously want rolled back.

I agree; the shift change threw me immediately. I like the appearance of the answer buttons, but I think it's detrimental to usability.

I've already had a lock-up of sorts, on the lock screen no less. When my phone was locked, I hit the home button and slid over "> Slide to unlock" and the screen shifted 1/4 inch and popped back. I had to go through a power-off/on cycle to get back into my phone. I really hope that isn't frequent...

Both 7 and 7.1 are horrible when it comes to usability of the shift key. The visual indicator is not self explanatory. It relies on users memorizing meaningless differences in the icon.

In iOS6 and earlier, there was an immediately obvious and non-confusable indicator of the shift key status. That was removed in iOS7 in order to be fashionably trendy with the look of the GUI.

This is unfortunately emblematic of how iOS7 discarded all GUI standards. For example, there is no longer a standard appearance for clickable regions, selected controls, etc. Apple is slowly realizing that their GUI usability has regressed and is backing off of some of the stylistic choices which were detrimental.

It might take years, but I hope that one day, Apple will once again value usability over style. Unfortunately that is largely dependent on the decision makers involved and I'm not convinced that those people value usability as highly as their counterparts once did.

I totally agree with you. Standardized placement of certain buttons, now are all over the place. Nothing makes sense anymore on a GUI stand point. It's like they went from "common sense" design of the GUI to "this looks cool" design or what the programmers wanted to do. Programmers make for the worst GUI designers. Trust me, I work with them all the time.

Beyond just button placement, the entire concept of a button has been destandardized.

There used to reliable rules for how buttons looked and behaved. Now, any random collection of pixels may or may not be a button that may or may not be in the depressed state.

For example, in mail the back-navigation button and edit button can now be toggled for visibility via a system setting to display "button shapes. Meanwhile, on the same screen, the compose new email button is not handled in the same way. Even with the system setting to display button shapes, that button and many others are exempt for no good reason other than style.

And why are there button outlines in the unlock screen but nowhere else in the interface?

There is zero consistency! Some people, perhaps most, don't care. But apple used to. The fact that they cared about usability is what made their systems easy to use, even for those people who claim to not care.

I'm a designer so I pick up on these same things as you do but majority of people are not designers so they think "I like it! It's got new colors." and that's their reasoning behind liking the new iOS. No other reasoning behind why they like other than, "I just like it." They don't realize it now takes them that additional half second to remember where the buttons are on each page where before they were always a somewhat standardized layout to the button structure.

Again, I believe Tim Cook doesn't have the design eye or care for usability that Steve Jobs had. He probably is letting the programmers just run with it. Which, in my opinion is the same problem that Microsoft suffers from and why no one will ever really feel comfortable on a Windows machine.

I totally agree with you. Standardized placement of certain buttons, now are all over the place. Nothing makes sense anymore on a GUI stand point. It's like they went from "common sense" design of the GUI to "this looks cool" design or what the programmers wanted to do. Programmers make for the worst GUI designers. Trust me, I work with them all the time.

Beyond just button placement, the entire concept of a button has been destandardized.

There used to reliable rules for how buttons looked and behaved. Now, any random collection of pixels may or may not be a button that may or may not be in the depressed state.

For example, in mail the back-navigation button and edit button can now be toggled for visibility via a system setting to display "button shapes. Meanwhile, on the same screen, the compose new email button is not handled in the same way. Even with the system setting to display button shapes, that button and many others are exempt for no good reason other than style.

And why are there button outlines in the unlock screen but nowhere else in the interface?

There is zero consistency! Some people, perhaps most, don't care. But apple used to. The fact that they cared about usability is what made their systems easy to use, even for those people who claim to not care.

These changes are all for the better. Especially the screen contrast/color/brightness and type improvements. Although, the march toward the icon-ization of interface elements that worked fine as words, still mystifies me (except that, it is a rookie move seen most often by junior designers and those with an industrial design background versus a graphic design or screen design background - Mr. Ive…). The phone icon changes are especially odd. They still write Decline and Accept under the icons. Accept? But it was Answer before? On my home phone the button says Talk. Why not Talk? Ugh, my point is that Apple should have made it an option. Use icons or stay the way it was with words.Side note: I wish all the tech sites and publications would at least have a person over 45 and a disabled person or migraine/balance disorder sufferer also chime in. And for that matter, an experienced (10-20 years plus) UX, UI, or graphic designer also give some feedback.That BA in Classics is a worthy degree but, you know, your treads are still too new Mr. Cunningham. Nothing wrong with that. Except, humans come in all ages, degrees of ability, and experience with UX, graphic form, typographic design, and interface design. Those older or varied views matter.Insert appropriate Greek or Roman quote about youthful bliss and the wisdom of experience and age here.

I am disappointed that they changed the in-call screen and made the "Hide" small. I am on a lot of conference calls and that means entering pin information after the call starts. Before, I would have to find a big "Hide" button, then click on the dialer and punch in the pin. Now, I will have to find a tiny "Hide" word in the lower right corner then click on the dialer. Same with mute. They don't give the user enough control in that interface and getting to commonly used things when making a phone call is hard.

One of the things I am especially disappointed about that isn't related to iOS 7.1 specifically, is that there is no button press on the iPhone ear bud control to mute a call or un-mute a call. You have to go through the phone interface to do it!

Edit: It helps if you actually try the update and don't just comment on what the article says. What I found was that when making calls using the new dialer, the dialer puts you into a screen with the different selections like mute, dialer, etc after the call is initiated. It doesn't require using the "Hide" word unless you go into one of those and want to return to the main screen again. So I take that back somewhat. I don't really like the use of a word that is clickable, but that is my personal opinion in general. What strikes me as odd though is where they made changes from word to button and button to word in the same application. For example, in the dialer, they changed the "Add to Contacts" clickable word into a non-obvious wordless icon and changed the "Hide" button into just a clickable "Hide" word, leaving the meaning the same.

These changes are all for the better. Especially the screen contrast/color/brightness and type improvements. Although, the march toward the icon-ization of interface elements that worked fine as words, still mystifies me (except that, it is a rookie move seen most often by junior designers and those with an industrial design background versus a graphic design or screen design background - Mr. Ive…). The phone icon changes are especially odd. They still write Decline and Accept under the icons. Accept? But it was Answer before? On my home phone the button says Talk. Why not Talk? Ugh, my point is that Apple should have made it an option. Use icons or stay the way it was with words.Side note: I wish all the tech sites and publications would at least have a person over 45 and a disabled person or migraine/balance disorder sufferer also chime in. And for that matter, an experienced (10-20 years plus) UX, UI, or graphic designer also give some feedback.That BA in Classics is a worthy degree but, you know, your treads are still too new Mr. Cunningham. Nothing wrong with that. Except, humans come in all ages, degrees of ability, and experience with UX, graphic form, typographic design, and interface design. Those older or varied views matter.Insert appropriate Greek or Roman quote about youthful bliss and the wisdom of experience and age here.

I think the problem with using "clickable" words is that it isn't always apparent whether a word is clickable or provides information only. I think having the text surrounded with some type of "this is a clickable area" outline makes sense, but how you do that isn't clear to me as I am not a UX/UI designer. Just a user

Why the hell does Apple want to get rid of easy to identify buttons with backgrounds?

These smaller buttons completely suck.

Selecting "Button Shapes" doesn't help at all since it only UNDERLINES text in buttons.

Such crap.

Where do you see this? Every place that shows a shape gives me a filled in shape, not an underline.

I see filled in shapes in the Navigation bar, but every other UI button on every screen (like those that appear in any alert) is simply blue underlined text.

I see outlines around the buttons in the Calendar, in Nav bars, Tool bars and in Button bars, but where ever there is a lone UIButton, the text inside it is underlined just as if it were a 1996 web link.

I'll check within Xcode later on when I install 5.1 to see which buttons are affected.

While I think the button shapes are ugly, I like the url link. The share text is small enough that a button wouldn't fit in that space!

But but but but… It's not a URL. This is confusing metaphors and further confusing the user.

Most of the changes made sense from a usability perspective, but then they removed contact photos from the caller ID when receiving a call? That sucks, and seems to directly contradict the other usability changes.

^^ This. Why replace the full screen contact photo with overlaid buttons with a posy little contact photo and a mostly blank screen. There is plenty of screen real-estate left to have a larger photo even if they wanted to keep the buttons distinct.

I liked the view where I did have them, but it's no major loss for me because I don't have photos of most of my contacts.

I only have photos for the people who call me most, which is why it is annoying to me.

Same here. I hope they address this in the next point update and don't make us wait for iOS 8 for this one.

The dialer view in the new phone.app is also annoying. Why make a target harder to hit?

Having just gone through some mobile web usability testing, they should probably take a look at how they chose to handle select boxes in iOS7. White background popping up on what are generally white websites got missed by a lot of people, especially since it takes up so little space at the bottom of the screen when it does appear. I suppose people will learn to use it over time, but it seemed a bit like a step backwards for such a commonly used feature

Why the hell does Apple want to get rid of easy to identify buttons with backgrounds?

These smaller buttons completely suck.

Selecting "Button Shapes" doesn't help at all since it only UNDERLINES text in buttons.

Such crap.

Where do you see this? Every place that shows a shape gives me a filled in shape, not an underline.

I see filled in shapes in the Navigation bar, but every other UI button on every screen (like those that appear in any alert) is simply blue underlined text.

I see outlines around the buttons in the Calendar, in Nav bars, Tool bars and in Button bars, but where ever there is a lone UIButton, the text inside it is underlined just as if it were a 1996 web link.

I'll check within Xcode later on when I install 5.1 to see which buttons are affected.

While I think the button shapes are ugly, I like the url link. The share text is small enough that a button wouldn't fit in that space!

But but but but… It's not a URL. This is confusing metaphors and further confusing the user.

iOS 7 is the destruction of what once was a great user interface.

Please stop spamming the thread with what is essentially the same post.